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Jamaican Patois and Vocabulary

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Jamaican Patois and Vocabulary

Jamaican Patois vs. Vocabulary

Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin) spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora; it is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language. A vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a person's language.

Similarities between Jamaican Patois and Vocabulary

Jamaican Patois and Vocabulary have 1 thing in common (in Unionpedia): Language.

Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Jamaican Patois and Vocabulary Comparison

Jamaican Patois has 135 relations, while Vocabulary has 41. As they have in common 1, the Jaccard index is 0.57% = 1 / (135 + 41).

References

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